Chapter 890: I don’t like him
Chapter 890: I don’t like him
With the wyverns, we made it back to the capital in no time at all.
It only took a single day of traveling, though we did stop midway to stay in one of the towns for the night.
It was possible for us to make it back in the middle of the night with the speed of the wyverns, but it wasn’t as if we could make our royal guest travel in the middle of the night like this.
So we stopped in the town, but that wasn’t the only reason.
Even a fool was able to see the way that Ariel looked at the wyverns.
The other reason that we stopped was to give her a chance to ride around on the wyverns a bit longer. Though that did make the people of the town a bit anxious seeing the wyvern circling around the town like this.
The noble in charge of the town even came to find out what was happening, but there was nothing that he could do in the face of a decree that had my signature on it.
He could only accept that the wyvern was going to fly around his town and went off to calm the people.
When we arrived in the capital the next day, there was no commotion at all.
The people were used to seeing wyverns coming in and out of the city, but it was even less than normal.
The reason for that was…
The prime minister was waiting where we landed.
It seemed that he had made sure that everyone was kept away for this specific reason.
When we arrived, the first thing that he did was…
“Brother in law, you’ve really caused quite a bit of trouble for me this time.” Noah said with a bitter smile on his face.
Instead of calling me ‘your majesty’, he was calling me brother in law.
It meant that instead of being on official business, he was just here to complain to me.
Well, I was already used to hearing him complain to me like this, so I patted him on the shoulder and said, “Well, this is for the good of our kingdom. You should already know the situation, so what do you think that we should do next?”
Noah slightly knitted his brows when he heard this and he didn’t answer right away.
In the end, he didn’t answer my question at all as he turned to look at the others getting off the wyverns.
There was one person in particular that he turned his eyes to.
Who else would it be but Ariel?
The way that he looked at her wasn’t as if he was interested in her, but rather he was trying to figure out what he could do with her. The way that he looked at her was almost as if he was looking at a chess piece rather than a human.
Ariel could feel that something was off as she felt a chill run down her spine from this gaze.
After looking around a bit, she turned to see Noah who was standing beside the human that she had made a contract with.
Seeing the way that he looked at her…she suddenly moved out of the way and went behind Angela who was nearby.
It was only when she went behind Angela that Noah stopped looking at her.
That was because Angela was glaring back at Noah.
I had seen all of this and shook my head with a faint smile, but I didn’t stop them.
When it was over, I stepped forward to Angela and Ariel to say, “Come over, I have someone that I want to introduce to you.”
I was naturally talking to Ariel, but it was both of them who came over.
Ariel, who found that Angela was a good shield, didn’t let her leave her side, so Angela could only come along with them.
Once she came over, I gestured at Noah and said, “This is my brother in law and the brother of Angela over here, as well as the former fourth prince and the current prime minister of our kingdom, Noah.”
Noah just looked at her with a smile on his face that was completely different from the way that he looked at her before.
He had a handsome face, though not as handsome as mine.
It was handsome enough that it would be able to fool some girls if he acted this way.
It was just that…
“I don’t like him.”
That was the response that he received from Ariel.
All of us were surprised that she would be this blunt, but then both Angela and I suddenly burst into laughter.
Only Noah stood there with an awkward and bitter smile on his face.
He couldn’t take our laughing anymore, so he said, “Sister, brother in law, stop laughing and explain things already!”
The two of us laughed even more when we heard this.
After all, this was the first time that we’ve seen him acting this way before.
In truth, there were very few people that could make him act this way.
The only ones that could make him act this way were those that he was unfamiliar with, but he knew that had more power than him. As for this princess from the Merman Empire, she
certainly was someone with more power than him.
She was someone that had even more power than me, so she was certainly someone to fear.
After laughing for a bit, I finally wiped the tears from my eyes and turned to Ariel to ask, “What don’t you like about him?”
Ariel narrowed her eyes to look at Noah before saying, “He’s too fake.”
We were all surprised to hear her say this, but I was the only one that really understood what she meant by this.
In the lore of the game, it was said that mermaids were very sensitive to those that were pure
or not.
They disliked those that they felt were dirty and that came in many different forms.
By the definition of the mermaids, the former fourth prince was someone that was quite dirty since he relied heavily on schemes to achieve his goals. He was someone that didn’t hesitate to throw people away after all.
So in a sense, she had struck at the essence of who Noah was.
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